heteroglossia Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˌhet.ər.əʊˈɡlɒs.i.ə]
  • Us [ ˌhet̬.ə.roʊˈɡlɑː.si.ə]

Meaning of heteroglossia In English

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Examples of heteroglossia

  • In his observations on heteroglossia in the Russian novel, Bakhtin notes: The speech of the narrators is always another's speech.

  • Heteroglossia is a term used by Mikhail Bakhtin to describe the many-voicedness of language.

  • The widespread heteroglossia of this society affects the notion of purity of language.

  • As far as the use of the notion "heteroglossia" is concerned, my source is its current use in linguistic anthropology.

  • The periodical is, surely, the acme of heteroglossia.

  • The celebration of such concepts as "polyphony," "heteroglossia," the "carnivalesque," has cast him in a leading role in the postmodernist arena.

  • At the same time, the dynamic relationship among these codes prevents us from seeing the existing heteroglossia as merely the result of juxtaposition.

  • These socially situated settings engendered heteroglossia, as constituted by the dynamic centrifugal concurrence of interrelated social codes.

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